Discover the Global Angel Wings Project in Los Angeles

Artist Colette Miller launched her Global Angel Wings Project in Los Angeles in 2012. Miller says, “I created the interactive street art angel wings project to remind humanity that we are the angels of Earth.” The colorful wings first appeared in Downtown LA's Arts District. Without prompting, people began posing with the wings and shared the photos on social media.

The angel wings paintings have since taken flight. Miller has painted them in Los Angeles, across the country, and internationally in Mexico, Kenya and Australia. She spoke about the Global Angel Wings Project at TEDx Culver City in June 2015.

Miller revisited the site of the first-ever angel wings painting, at Traction and Hewitt in the Arts District, to paint a new pair.

“Los Angeles is the City of Angels, often known for its street art and murals. It's fitting the interactive street art angel wings project started here." ~ Colette Miller

"It's also apt that the Global Angel Wings Project was founded in this world city of a thousand nationalities/languages/belief systems as all humanity can be the good on this Earth if we try," says Miller.

Also located in the Arts District, Angel City Brewery is as known for the street art that adorns the building as it is for its craft beers. In addition to Miller’s angel wings, the brewery features antigirl’s Heart of Los Angeles and a haunting portrait from JR’s The Wrinkles of the City series.

Perhaps the most-photographed angel wings are painted on a roll-up door at the Regent Theatre, located at 446 S. Main St. in Downtown LA. Acclaimed LA photographer Gary Leonard has photographed hundreds of Angelenos, including former Mayor Eric Garcetti, standing in front of these wings. Leonard’s recent exhibition, City of Angels: Portraits presented 32 angel wing photos at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

The “Three Flowers Wings” are located across from Fairfax High School on Melrose Avenue, one block east of Fairfax between Genesee and Ogden.

Miller created a Google Map of the angel wings in LA, across the U.S. and around the world. For more info, visit the Global Angel Wings Project website and follow @colettemillerwings on Instagram.